New French Clint Eastwood documentary

 

Clint Eastwood, la dernière légende – French title

Clint Eastwood - Der Letzte seiner Art – German title

Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend – English title

 

A 2022 French television documentary production [Agat Films & Cie, ARTE France,

     Ciné+ (Paris)]

Producers:  Emelie de Jong, Muriel Meynard

Director: Clélia Cohen

Story: Clélia Cohen

Photography: [black & white, color]

Music: Matteo Locasciulli, Andrea Moscianese

Running time: 78 minutes

 

Cast:

Narrators: Sarah-Jane Sauvegrain, Nina Kunzendorf

Clint Eastwood, Michael Cimino, Morgan Freeman, Rock Hudson, Maggie Eastwood (Maggie Johnson), Pauline Kael, Sergio Leone, James Lipton, Sondra Locke, Lee Marvin, Bill McKinney, Vincente Minnelli, Jack Nicholson, Burt Reynolds, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Martin Scorsese, Gene Shalit, Don Siegel, Meryl Streep, Barbara Streisand, Diane Venora, John Wayne, Orson Welles, Forest Whitaker, Ruth Wood.

A portrait of the last cowboy Hollywood legend dives into the 65 years of an extraordinary career in Hollywood, highlighted iconic films like “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”, as well as “Million Dollar Baby”, “Mystic River” and “Gran Torino” all the way to “Cry Macho” in 2021. It is no small task to cover more than 60 years of cinema history, especially when it is trying to survey with such breadth and diversity: TV star, international star, controversial icon, contested director, filmmaker with a capital F, Eastwood has been through it all, experienced it all, and it is first of all this romantic trajectory, this true American pastoral that the documentary wants to tell with all the passion it possibly can.